Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

6 Results: Conjuncts according to their semantic roles
Since it is assumed here that conjuncts reflect to a certain extent the interactive 
and dialogic character of academic texts, let me now consider the role the 
individual semantic classes of conjuncts can perform as markers of intertextuality 
(Bazerman 2004) and dialogicality of academic texts. In order to provide a 
comprehensive picture of the types of conjuncts non-native speakers apply in 
comparison with native speakers of English included in the investigation, this 
section discusses the individual semantic classes of conjuncts as found in both 
corpora while illustrating their role in contributing to the interaction between 
the author(s) and the reader(s) of the text and showing whether these particular 
semantic classes of conjuncts can enable voices other than the author’s own 
current voice to enter the text, thus clearly enhancing the interactive and dialogic 
character of the academic written discourse.